A 30-year-old drug addict who attempted to rob a Lucan shop and threatened the owner with an imitation handgun has been given a six-year sentence with the final two years suspended.

A drug user whose life was threatened after he was caught with over €40,000 worth of cocaine, heroin and cannabis has been jailed for eight years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Gardaí in Dublin have made yet another heroin seizure.